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Got to the finale in Yakuza 5. Is this motherfucker seriously trying to bribe Akiyama? e: anyway, the best thing in this game was when I tried to pick up a baseball bat in a fight as Shinada and he paused for a couple of seconds and just refused. My man respects the equipment.
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Irony.or.Death posted:I think I broadly agree with both of you, just...it feels like a stretch to call that the plot when it's all stuff we learn in the opening taxi ride. It's a fine premise. The individual segments contain some interesting beats that don't have any apparent connection to that opening premise so I was certainly curious about how it was all going to come together in the finale. But then it turns out the answer is terribly, in a way that makes no sense even by series standards. Reminder: the "villain" wanted to make sure Saejima was out of the way, and his approach to this starts with breaking Saejima out of prison and culminates with persuading Saejima to have a fist fight with Majima. I'm as happy as the next guy that Saejima punched a bear out along the way, but that's just breathtaking. We are left with some good vignettes inside of a really bad story. Kurosawa doesn’t want Saejima out of the way, he wants him in Tokyo to kill Katsuya, and when that fails he pits him against Majima instead. His whole scheme is decapitating the Tojo and the Omi simultaneously by manipulating all their top brass to kill each other, so his people can take control. I don’t mind the stupidly convoluted villain schemes in Yakuza 5, but I really dislike the part where the heroes figure it all out in advance and... go along with it anyway, because  Also, I think I’m the only person in the world who likes the Mandatory Final Boss Twist in Y5 just because I love it when the hero and the villain have similar motives. Gotta help your kid follow their dreams!
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Novasol posted:A lot of the combat dialogue in general is amazing. Zhao as fortune teller is great just because he goes out of his way to try to sound spooky in the same way a Scooby Doo villain would. "Lightning's gonna oooooowwwwwwnnnn your rear end!" Yardbomb posted:The potential for friendly fire is worth it to hear the drunk lines. Yeah cannot overstate how awesome the dub work is. Just great work and effort put into the voice work.
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Irony.or.Death posted:It's pretty much just the lady who runs New Serena as far as I can remember The one with literally no name? 
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Mar 16, 2021 01:12
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"Mama" is a perfectly respectable name!
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Inferior posted:Also, I think I’m the only person in the world who likes the Mandatory Final Boss Twist in Y5 just because I love it when the hero and the villain have similar motives. Gotta help your kid follow their dreams! they should've just had kurosawa's son be a yet-unseen guy introduced in the final chapter. it's not much better but at least you can leave aizawa as a character that makes sense this way.
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Mar 16, 2021 08:06
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the struggles of life is the final boss of y5.
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Beat Yakuza 5. That really fell apart at the end, wow! Tempted to move right on to 6, but afraid of burning out. But I want to get to Like a Dragon so bad! I can practically taste it!
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From what i've played of Y6 so far it doesn't seem to be going in that direction since it seems like they are gonna focus hardcore on Kiryu. It being the "final" game and all for him I'm not a big fan of the literal playing with the baby minigame but it was only the one section of it...so far!
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Yeah, that minigame doesn't come up a lot.
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man if you think that's bad wait until you play as the baby. haruto's heat actions barely do any damage at all!
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:man if you think that's bad wait until you play as the baby. haruto's heat actions barely do any damage at all! Would prefer baby fight man to doing more idol dancing and handshaking.
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Oh, I really liked the songs and talk show segments. There could have been more songs, but I think I was so sick of street fights at that point that I was also happy just to be able to run around Sotenbori freely.
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Also all of the dance battle tracks were really good! Haruka's gameplay was great, definitely wish she was allowed more personality than "polite" though
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:man if you think that's bad wait until you play as the baby. haruto's heat actions barely do any damage at all! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGNRYeeFQLs
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Kojiro posted:Also all of the dance battle tracks were really good! Haruka's gameplay was great, definitely wish she was allowed more personality than "polite" though Yeah they really sanded off all the cool rough edges she had when she was 8 in the first game. What a shame.
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Probably a byproduct of needing to write the other kids at the orphanage.
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The most important Yakuza video has already been made https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPwzUdVQz6k
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Which game was it that allowed you to play as Date? From what I remember he was slow and hard to control, and couldn't take a hit to save his life, but he had this badass counter-move.
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Arist posted:Beat Yakuza 5. That really fell apart at the end, wow! 6 is shorter in general, but also depends on how much time you sink into the side stuff.
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Prokhor Zakharov posted:The most important Yakuza video has already been made if it was the ultimate version, they would have used kiryu's kiwami version with the photo of pocket circuit fighter instead 
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J.A.B.C. posted:Which game was it that allowed you to play as Date? From what I remember he was slow and hard to control, and couldn't take a hit to save his life, but he had this badass counter-move. i dont think you've ever been able to play as Date unless it was in Dead Souls, that being the only one i've yet to play?
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You never play as Date. He's a companion in Dead Souls, which means he just kinda hangs around with a gun and takes useless shots every two minutes. Are you thinking of Tanimura, maybe?
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J.A.B.C. posted:Which game was it that allowed you to play as Date? From what I remember he was slow and hard to control, and couldn't take a hit to save his life, but he had this badass counter-move. AI: The Somnium Files
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I wanna say theres a climax battle where you play as Date? Maybe? I like that even yakuza fans don't touch the climax battles
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instant battle or climax battle? which do you prefer?
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Wolfsheim posted:I wanna say theres a climax battle where you play as Date? Maybe? I did. I hate them and they suck, but they were a requirement for platinum back in the day. Now they're not! And life is better. My favorite climax battle moment is that Kiwami 1 doesn't have Jingu in any of its boss-oriented climax battles. They knew no one liked that fight.
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I play the climax battles too. Some of them are fun, but I mostly like the boss rushes.
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Yeah there's a climax battle in Kiwami where you play as Date. He's not very good at fighting and just makes you appreciate how much of an asskicker, well, literally any other playable character is.
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I've only done the climax battles once, for 4, and only because doing all the climax battles gives you an infinite heat item you can take back into the game. Nothing quite like getting the trophy for beating the game on Legend by bringing in infinite heat and a gun that never runs out of ammo.
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Crappy Jack posted:I've only done the climax battles once, for 4, and only because doing all the climax battles gives you an infinite heat item you can take back into the game. This is extremely cool and every Yakuza game should have a cheat item to break some of the bullshit difficult encounters. In YK2 I somehow didn't touch those club bouncer missions (does that club ever come up again after YK2?) until after the ending when you can buy the infinite ammo gun and lightsaber and just steamrolled every encounter and it was pretty good times
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Crappy Jack posted:I've only done the climax battles once, for 4, and only because doing all the climax battles gives you an infinite heat item you can take back into the game. I cannot beat that final one for the plat medal on 4. It stinks it's a 20 minute gauntlet and I run out at the end
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I still think about Nanba looking at a photo of the homeless camp's chief and crooning of his love... maybe once a week.
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mastershakeman posted:I cannot beat that final one for the plat medal on 4. It stinks it's a 20 minute gauntlet and I run out at the end I had a hard time with that too. I wasted a lot of time with Tanimura and struggled with a few of Kiryu's. I managed to get a lucky tiger drop in at the end with 3 seconds to spare.
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Man just hearing the battle music reminded me how much I liked this game poo poo
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Xarbala posted:Yeah there's a climax battle in Kiwami where you play as Date. He's not very good at fighting and just makes you appreciate how much of an asskicker, well, literally any other playable character is. I found it, I think. https://youtu.be/zVY_wXoMbY8 Oh god the poor man...
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Covid must have hit RGG hard eh? No news at all on the next game right?
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all the characters are smokers and are isolating pretty hard as a result
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Mar 18, 2021 15:39
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nagoshi entered a new cocoon phase perhaps when he awakens as a winged mobster with hdr led veneers he can decide on his inspired direction for the next entry in the series.
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I'm about 10 hours into LAD and it is shaping up extremely well. The story of 0 picked up pace much quicker, but I think the fact that this is at once much dryer in tone but even sillier than before, I'm having an awful lot of fun with it. the tonal whiplash is really the best thing about these games. The pokemon reference sequence was extremely good.
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